Festival calendar
Hindu Festivals 1942
Dates for Delhi, computed from the classical rules — a festival is a tithi in a month, and the day it lands on depends on your own sunrise.
Sunrise-based values for Delhi.
45 festivals
1942 at a glance
Grouped by month. Times shown are the ones the observance actually keys on — moonrise for Karva Chauth, sunset for the Pradosh observances.
Jan 1942
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Dwadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Saptami
Feb 1942
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Mar 1942
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:21
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Pratipada
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Navami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Trayodashi
Apr 1942
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturdashi · the tithi does not touch a sunrise here, so the date follows the day it runs
Jun 1942
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dashami
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Jul 1942
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima
Aug 1942
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Panchami
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Purnima
Sep 1942
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Ashtami
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Tritiya
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Purnima
Oct 1942
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Pratipada
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ashtami
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Dashami
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 19:07
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 21:52
Nov 1942
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:32
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Pratipada
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Dwitiya
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Shashthi · Sunrise 07:42
Budhvaar (Wed) · Shukla Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima
Dec 1942
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Panchami
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Ekadashi
106 occurrences
Monthly vrats
Ekadashi, Pradosh, Sankashti, Purnima and Amavasya repeat every lunar month. These are all of them, for the whole year.
Jan 1942
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:34
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:09
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Krishna Ekadashi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:46
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Amavasya
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Chaturthi
Mangalvaar (Tue) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 18:58
Feb 1942
Ravivaar (Sun) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 19:06
Guruvaar (Thu) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:58
Budhvaar (Wed) · Krishna Ekadashi
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:09
Shanivaar (Sat) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Amavasya
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Chaturthi
Guruvaar (Thu) · Shukla Ekadashi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Trayodashi · Sunset (Pradosh begins) 19:20
Mar 1942
Somvaar (Mon) · Shukla Purnima · Moonrise 18:49
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Chaturthi · Moonrise 22:52
Shukravaar (Fri) · Krishna Ekadashi
Ravivaar (Sun) · Krishna Chaturdashi
Somvaar (Mon) · Krishna Amavasya
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Chaturthi
Shanivaar (Sat) · Shukla Ekadashi
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How these dates are worked out
Rules, not a list
Every date on this page is computed. Diwali is the Amavasya of Kartika; Holi is the Purnima of Phalguna; Ganesh Chaturthi is the Shukla Chaturthi of Bhadrapada. Give those rules a real ephemeris and the dates fall out — for any year, without anyone typing them in.
That matters because a typed-in list is right for one year and quietly wrong afterwards, with nothing to notice. It also cannot be right in two places at once: a festival falls on the civil day whose local sunrise its tithi spans, so the same rule gives different Gregorian dates in Delhi and in Auckland.
A few festivals are not dated from sunrise, because they are not observed at sunrise. Diwali is dated from the Pradosh window after sunset, when Lakshmi Puja is performed, and Maha Shivaratri from Nishita at midnight. We apply that only where we have checked the result against a published date.
Where traditions genuinely differ we say so instead of choosing for you — Diwali is Ashwin Amavasya in Gujarat and Kartika Amavasya in Delhi, the same night under two month names.